Job Listings

Below is a general list of environmental organizations with potential summer/semester/post-graduate legal employment opportunities. In recent years, students have worked as legal externs at Communities for a Better Environment, Natural Resources Defense Council, Earthjustice, NOAA Office of General Counsel, the California Attorney General's Office, California Air Resources Board, Wishtoyo Foundation, Los Angeles Waterkeeper, California State Water Resources Control Board, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Surfrider Foundation, and in the environmental practices of private law firms including Morrison & Foerster and Nossaman LLP.

For a listing of specific job postings, please visit our 1L and 2L semester and summer job postings webpage or our post-graduate job postings webpage.

Non-Profit

Center for Biological Diversity (San Francisco, CA; Petersburg, FL; Portland, OR)
Center for Ocean Solutions
Climate Resolve (Los Angeles, CA)
Communities for a Better Environment (Los Angeles, CA)
Conservation Law Foundation (Boston, MA; Portland, ME; Concord, NH; Providence, RI; and Montpelier, VT)
Earthjustice
Environmental Defense Center (Santa Barbara, CA)
Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Law Institute (Washington, DC)
Hudson Riverkeeper (Westchester County, NY)
Los Angeles Waterkeeper (Santa Monica, CA)
Natural Resources Defense Council
Orange County Coastkeeper (Costa Mesa, CA)
Property and Environment Research Center (Bozeman, MT)
San Diego Coastkeeper (San Diego, CA)
Sierra Club
Surfrider Foundation (San Clemente, CA)

Government

California Air Resources Board, Office of Legal Affairs
California Office of Attorney General: Environmental Section, Land Law Section, and Natural Resources Section
California State Water Resources Control Board
Council on Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the President
Department of Justice, Environmental & Natural Resources Division
Environmental Protection Agency
Los Angeles City Attorney, Criminal Environmental Unit (Los Angeles, CA)
South Coast Air Quality Management District

Private

Angel Law (Santa Monica, CA)
Chatten-Brown & Carstens (Hermosa Beach, CA)
Law Offices of Gideon Kracov (Los Angeles, CA)
Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger (San Francisco, CA)
The Silverstein Law Firm (Los Angeles, CA)

Post-Graduate Legal Fellowships

Center for Global Development- Senior/Research Fellow (Washington, D.C.)
Center for International Environmental Law- Louis B. Sohn Fellowship in Human Rights & Environment (Washington, D.C.)
Communities for a Better Environment- Legal Fellow (Los Angeles, CA)
Earthjustice- Pro Bono Fellow (New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA)
Emory School of Law, Turner Environmental Law Clinic- Postgraduate Fellow (Atlanta, GA)
Environmental Defense Fund- Legal Fellow (Boulder, CO; Washington, D.C.)
Environmental Law & Policy Center- Environmental Attorney Fellow (Chicago, IL)
Environmental Law Institute- Environmental Law Fellow (Washington, D.C.)
Georgetown University Law Center- Institute for Public Representation- Environmental Law Fellow/Staff Attorney (Washington, D.C.)
Los Angeles Waterkeeper- Joe Melchione Law Fellow (Santa Monica, CA)
Property and Environment Research Center- Legal Fellow (Bozeman, MT)
Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger- Fellow (San Francisco, CA)
Surfrider Foundation- Legal Department Fellow (San Clemente, CA)
UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and Environmental Law Center- UCLA Emmett/Frankel Fellow (Los Angeles, CA)

Helpful Resources

PSJD: public interest job database
UCLA Law Symplicity: job database
Professor Sean Hecht: hecht@law.ucla.edu
Professor Cara Horowitz: horowitz@law.ucla.edu
A Trail Guide to Careers in Environmental Law- courtesy of Harvard Law School